Warlock DPS

[Quigly4000]

Okay so I've spent several hours toying with the profile for my warlock and while its improved alot, I'm still pretty unhappy with its performance.

So here some background on my warlock:

- 232cb and 232 potency
- capped reuse and casting speed
- 1700 ability mod
- always critting 100% on any content I do
- Group setup: troub/illy/beastlord/conj/inq and the warlock
- Warlock gets potency buff from illy which is ~25 more potency.
- Warlock gets Upbeat Tempo
- Specced for sanguine sacrifice for another buttload of potency.

Take the first named in underdepths for example (these toons are all being run by ogre cept bruiser) -- which is great for a warlock since there are 3 targets in the encounter to start.

(03:24) Tel'koran Bloodmaw
Beastlord | 384892
Brigand | 319246
Assassin | 297870
Conj | 238972
Warlock | 228224
Bruiser | 220126
Illusionist | 214520

This parse is from theldek the stinger which is pretty much all single target the whole way through.. warlock gets outparsed by my illusionist.. its pathetic.

(04:13) Theldek the Stinger
Bruiser | 295879
Beastlord | 294338
Brigand| 274615
Assassin | 268721
Conjuror | 215193
Illusionist | 206327
Warlock | 188261

the BL, Conj, Assassin, and Warlock are all pretty similarly geared.

Are you guys getting alot more out of your warlocks? in the cast order i have all the big aoe hitters to start (smart aoe's so they won't cast unless there are multiple targets) followed by the big single target hitters.. dark pyre.. acid.. plaguebringer. and then those bigger aoe hitters again but with ignore AE selected so they still go off on single target fights at a lower priority. Basically tried to fashion the cast order out of the spell efficiency spreadsheets provided over on eq2flames.

I feel like I get way more out of the scout classes for a fraction of the work and am considering rebuilding for a scout dps group instead of this mage dps group since they just aren't putting out the numbers that my scouts can. Or perhaps i should just betray the warlock to a wizard? Haven't tried a wizard out with ogre yet.

Any input or tweaked scripts would be greatly appreciated!

 

[Kannkor]

Warlocks are doing more damage than wizards in our bot raids. I don't play either one, and the guy who does play the warlock is out of town for a few weeks, so I can't really answer many questions...

If you haven't, watch the warlock on a fight or 2, and use the top option in debugging to make sure he's not chain buffing, or doing something he shouldn't be.

It really seems in a group like that, he should be doing much, much more.

Our warlock is pretty well geared IMO, and he usually does 400-600k on single target fights, and well above that on AE fights (700-1mil?).

 

[Quigly4000]

Came across this in the DoV DPS thread -- so does seem pretty clear that warlocks are quite capable of parsing way better than what mine is doing currently and it can't all be gear.

2 mobs from EM Throne for fun

Add was a monk so had a few deaths
(01:10) Primus Pilus Gunnr: 2597088 wiz-Manaburn-1987937
warlock | 524143
wizard | 409374
warlock | 405094
monk | 331898
troub | 227577
illy | 192143
troub | 184634
coer | 150346
myst | 51891
myst | 47293
inq | 37888
inq | 34805

(01:18) Imperator Kolskeggr: 2806238 wiz-Manaburn-2034641
warlock | 517616
warlock | 478790
wizard | 402182
monk | 350877
troub | 248518
troub | 244218
illy | 197070
coer | 164991
myst | 62602
inq | 50007
myst | 48691
inq | 40677

Will be quite curious to know how some of you are setting up your warlock profiles. I've read very extensively on the warlock forums on eq2flames and have spent alot of time looking over my spells and doing training dummies. So I must just be doing something wrong when i'm programming it into ogre

And thanks for the advice Kannkor, I'll try to make a point of watching the Warlock when doing a raid -- haven't actually watching him outside of heroic instances or training dummies.. so maybe he's doing something funky when in a raid setting.

 

[insanitywiz]

I'll try to remember to post my wizzie (won't help you, but someone asked for it recently and I forgot about it until this post) profile next time I'm home, but one thing I can say is that if you are trying to use a casting order from flames, you are not going to be perfectly happy. Those casting orders do not work for botted toons very well, at least in my experience.

 

[Quigly4000]

I'll try to remember to post my wizzie (won't help you, but someone asked for it recently and I forgot about it until this post) profile next time I'm home, but one thing I can say is that if you are trying to use a casting order from flames, you are not going to be perfectly happy. Those casting orders do not work for botted toons very well, at least in my experience.

Can always betray the warlock